[#235] support for negative binomial family

Date:
2008-10-27 11:01 Priority:
3

State:
Open

Submitted by:
Thomas Zumbrunn (thomas) Assigned to:
Nobody (None)

Product:
glmer Operating System:
None

Component:
glmer

Summary:
support for negative binomial family

Detailed description
It would be nice to have support for the negative binomial family in glmer, although the modifications to the code base are supposedly not trivial (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2008q3/001262.html).

Comments:

Message
Date: 2010-04-30 06:19 Sender: Adam Kramer Thirded.
Date: 2009-02-15 21:52 Sender: Ben Bolker seconded! would be happy to take a crack at this if the relevant infrastructure (slot somewhere in the mer object for passing in the fixed overdispersion parameter) were implemented. This would also enable beta-binomial and other overdispersed models ...

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